Bride for a Knight
Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Reviewed by Terry Spear
I’ve read tons of Scottish historicals, but loved the added ghostly intrigue and superstitions present in Scotland—the ancient histories, legends, and fascinating lore that Sue-Ellen Welfonder intertwines with the sensual Highlander romance in Bride for a Knight. Since my own roots are steeped in the Scottish Highlands, I have a fascination for everything Scottish, and in fact make a line of Celtic Clan Bears from my award-winning Wilde & Woolly Bears for the Scottish at heart. So every time I see a man in a kilt, I’ve got to read the book. But the paranormal for me has as big a draw. Combine bare-chested men wearing low-slung kilts with premonitions of ill-tidings, and I’m doubly hooked.
In BRIDE FOR A KNIGHT, the tenth son of Munro Macpherson, James of the Heather, so called because his father cast him to the heather when his mother dies giving birth to him, learns all nine of his brothers have died when a bridge gives way and they drown in a treacherous river. James becomes the next in line to be the clan’s chief. Aveline Matheson has no marriage prospects until her sister’s betrothed, the eldest of James’s brothers dies. Now, she is to be betrothed to James to make peace between the warring clans. James must uncover the truth into his brothers’ deaths, deal with a cantankerous father who doesn’t want him, and protect Aveline from her own tyrannical father—making for the perfect hero in this sensual tale.
I actually cried when James learns his brothers all have died, feeling his emotions as he did. Throughout the story, I wanted to find out what had really happened to the brothers that fateful day. With a gift to create a living historical past, Ms. Welfonder painted vivid scenes that made me feel I was really there. Premonitions of evil doings and ghostly hauntings kept me reading until the end.
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About the Reviewer:
Terry Spear is the author of urban fantasy werewolf romantic suspenses, HEART OF THE WOLF, coming April 2008, and DON’T CRY WOLF, April 2009. A retired lieutenant colonel with the USAR, she makes award-winning teddy bears and writes paranormal and historical novels for adult and teen audiences alike.
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